Why so much media interest in Corby?

Why is there so much media interest in convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby?

AFP officials have raided Seven offices in Sydney in connection with proceeds from a Schapelle Corby interview. (AAP)

Schapelle Corby has been released from Bali's Kerobokan prison to start serving parole.

A media pack gathered to see the convicted drug smuggler escorted from the jail in a police van to finalise paperwork at the prosecutor and corrections office.

The 36-year-old has served nine years of a 20-year sentence for smuggling more than four kilograms of marijuana into Indonesia.

Peter Ford is a Melbourne-based entertainment journalist.

He told Greg Dyett why he thinks that Schapelle Corby is attracting a huge deal of media attention.

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